Special Town Meeting Results

As expected, participation in the startup WiredWest (the coalition of towns that hopes to bring broadband to our homes and businesses) passed overwhemingly. The school committee's version of the new 5 town agreement beat out the Egremont version. The library proposal was badly defeated. And although it won a majority vote, the proposed modular police station on the annex site lost because it failed to get the required two-thirds vote.

Well over 100 voters came to the meeting. My "rule of town meetings" is that whenever more than 110 voters show up, they're there to vote no on whatever the issue is. In this case that issue was the library. The police station may be the exception that proves the rule.